page_title: Ferenc Molnár
section_title: Plays
hierarchical_section_title: Ferenc Molnár / Selected works / Plays
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Molnár Ferenc portréja. Levelezőlap, 1918, fotó: Uher Ödön National Széchényi Library &#160;&#160;LocationBudapestCoordinates47°&#160;29′&#160;53.34″&#160;N, 19°&#160;02′&#160;14.4″&#160;E Established1802Authority control : Q1063819 VIAF:&#8201;137912193 ISNI:&#8201;0000 0001 2167 0554 ULAN:&#8201;500306655 LCCN:&#8201;n79076057 NLA:&#8201;35722893 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q1063819
context_page_description: Ferenc Molnár, often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage-director, dramatist, and poet, widely regarded as Hungary’s most celebrated and controversial playwright. His primary aim through his writing was to entertain by transforming his personal experiences into literary works of art. He was never connected to any one literary movement but he did utilize the precepts of naturalism, Neo-Romanticism, Expressionism, and the Freudian psychoanalytical concepts, but only as long as they suited his desires. “By fusing the realistic narrative and stage tradition of Hungary with Western influences into a cosmopolitan amalgam, Molnár emerged as a versatile artist whose style was uniquely his own.”
  As a novelist, Molnár may best be remembered for The Paul Street Boys, the story of two rival gangs of youths in Budapest. It has been translated into fourteen languages and adapted for the stage and film. It has been considered a masterpiece by many. It was, however, as a playwright that he made his greatest contribution and how he is best known internationally.
context_section_description: The Lawyer (1902)
  Jozsi (1904)
  The Devil (1907)
  Liliom (1909)
  The Guardsman (1910)
  The Tale of the Wolf (1912)
  The White Cloud (1916)
  Carnival (1916)
  Fashions for Men (1917)
  The Swan (1920)
  The Play's the Thing (1926)
  Olympia (1928)
  One two three (1929)
  The Good Fairy (1930)
  Delicate Story (1940)
  The King's Maid (1941)
caption: Portrait of Ferenc Molnár (1918)
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